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123 of 126 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A great 32" LCD!, October 20, 2005
After a month of reviewing 32" LCD's I chose this model over the equivalent Sharp and I'm very pleased. This monitor's HD is awesome! It is also very good at displaying standard definition programming. The blacks are very deep and you can control the backlight to fine tune the picture. It has three 16:9 modes and four 4:3. The wide zoom works great for SD shows.
This monitor is hooked up to a DirecTV HD Tivo and works flawless with the HDMI cable. The sound from the internal speaker is very good and has three sound modes. Overall I'm very happy with the picture quality and the quality of the finish.
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76 of 78 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best TV I have ever owned, November 27, 2005
Very happy with my purchase. Started with Computer Reports (understand this product replaced #1 rated LCD TV). Went to local retailer dealer and reviewed other LCD TVs in the size category (I had a hurdle of having built ins in place for conventional 4:3 TV, so I was going to have to limit the size unless I wanted to spend $1000s to redo spaces to get a larger set). Liked the picture quality, reliability (you do get what you pay for sometimes), the HDMI connectibility.
Right now I have the Sony connected to a Dish 508 Satellite receiver (S connection) and a Toshiba HiDef HDMI DVD player. It works perfectly and is the best TV I have ever onwed. My plan is to upgrade components over time, starting with PlayStation 3 next year, and probably HiDef satellite in 2007.
I read a number of reviews online, and I think there is a divergence between those who want only the best and those that want very good to excellent. I place myself in the later category. My family watch roughly 1.30 hours of TV per day, and the set doesn't make the content any better. I still prefer seeing movies in a theatre on a really big screen. On the otherhand, the Sony represents a quantum leap over my last TV (Toshiba 27#) and so far, I'm very happy.
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35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Worried but turned out pleased, March 9, 2006
I was a bit worried buying this set from Amazon because it was by far the most expensive product I've purchased from Amazon. But the price, including the shipping, was substantially lower than what I could buy "at home," so I took the chance. All in all, I am pleased that I did so.
The Amazon experience was generally good. It's obviously very simple to order from Amazon's site. The shipper (Eagle) did not provide enough information; using Amazon's "where's my stuff" feature, I was told that the product was shipped but had no idea where it was in Eagle's system aside from an estimated delivery date of a Monday. However, on the preceeding Thursday, Eagle called to set up a delivery time on Friday. My wife had a somewhat restricted time during which she would be available, but Eagle accomodated her. She told me that the delivery person was pleasant and put the 45 pound or so package where she needed it. The package arrived in excellent shape, as did the TV when we opened it.
The TV itself is quite nice. While it does not include an HDMI cable (which can range in price from about $70 for one meter [Monster] to $23 for 6 feet [Startech]) nonetheless there were enough cables provided to hook it up to my HD cable box. (Yes, you do need a separate HD decoder for this TV, perhaps one reason why it's somewhat less expensive than other similar sized Sony TVs.) One aspect of the initial set up that I believe is not sufficently explained is that you must be sure to turn to the video input on the TV into which you have connected your cable (or satellite) BEFORE you do a "channel search." I did not realize this fact and so after I did a channel search I was very worried that all I saw was static. But, once I eventually clicked over from the video 1 input to the video 4 input (where I had connected my cable box) everything was fine.
The HD picture on the set is remarkable...but that is probably true of virtually all HD sets. The non-HD picture is also sharp. Compared to conventional, CRT TVs, I think the LCD picture is distinctly sharper. Indeed, at first it seemed somehow "too sharp." Initially I thought the picture on a conventional TV was, in some fashion, more life-like. But I am coming increasing to believe that this was an artifact of watching only CRT televisions until I purchased this set. As I watch more shows on the LCD screen, I am becoming more used to the picture and now find myself dissatisfied when I watch our conventional TV in the bedroom..
The WEGA feature simplifies setting up the set and is nice but let's face it: Once the TV is set up, you probably won't use this feature very often. I wish the set had more HDMI inputs (it has only one) so that I could hook up both my cable box and DVD player. I also wish it had a set of inputs on the front to ease setting up and taking down my kid's video games. The remote has a bunch of buttons, but it's more or less logically laid out and so works well.
Would I buy another TV from Amazon? Based on my experience, I think so. Amazon prices seem low enough compared to the local brick and mortar stores to more than adequately compensate for the delay from order to receipt of the TV. So my experience has been strongly positive.
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